Field Truncation Leads to Humor

A co-worker of mine tends to place online food orders for himself, my wife, and me at a local establishment when she comes to visits.

My coworker has a tendency to like to screw with my order by placing funny text in my comment field. In his, he wrote “Your portions are too big, small portions please.” In mine, he’d then write “I am a manly macho man, I need a microscope to see your portions.” So, when we’d go to pick up our food, I’d be wondering why my order was the size of a bowling ball. He’d break into laughter, and the manager would show me the order slip. They’ve been doing this for weeks.

This week the manager asked me if I had typed in a comment. I turned to the guilty and asked “What’d you do?” In complete and sincere innocence he responded: “I did nothing. I swear.” His look told me he was being truthful.

The manager, however, refused to show me the slip. This is odd, because he always lets me see. This time he was insistent, said it was between him and my friend, and wouldn’t even let my wife see.

The next time we placed an order, I saw from the old values, still on the computer, what had happened.

My co-worker had typed this:
I am very H U N G R Y!!!
Make me happy.

However, due to field truncation in the order form, this is what the manager saw:
I am very H U N G
Make me happy.